Rifle. To clean or not to clean?

[Bubblehide]

Factory barrels are not cut with much love at all so they will have more imperfections in the lands. The fouling is going to fill these tooling marks which will help the bullet consistently move down the barrel. The consistency is going to equate to better accuracy shot to shot.

I get what you're saying, but that can and obviously does vary with manufacture and method utilized. What your saying clearly is not valid as a blanket statement for all factory barrels. However, I certainly hope a custom barrel manufacture cuts their barrels with lots of love.

 

[KenLee]

I clean my barrel only when accuracy drops off.

Amen!

 

[General RE LEE]

I clean my bore after every range trip. I know how my bores shoot clean or fouled. It’s easier to clean a bore when it’s not fouled up.

Hunting season I shoot several rounds in my rifles and leave them fouled.

 

[HairyScandinavian]

It’s quite a bit more than that now. I’m still waiting for a barrel to blow up or stop shooting due to not cleaning.

I had a 270 WSM that started blowing out primers. I'd noted the primer strikes looks strange/different but didn't know what I was looking at at the time, eventually started getting powder or gas or something shooting around the bolt and looked at the brass to find the primers blowing out. We cleaned the living heck out of that rifle and got it shooting well again but it took some time.